2024 Phi Alpha Theta Utah Regional Meeting
Program
8:30 am | Eccles Conference Center
Registration and Breakfast (ECC 205)
9:00 am
Welcome: Julia Gossard | Associate Dean for Research, College of Humanities & Social Sciences
9:10 am | Session 1 | Hunstman Hall
Panel 1A: Investigating Identities in Antiquity (HH 260)
Chair: Daniel Porter, Utah State University
Evyn Staheli (Utah State University) “Religion in Ancient Egypt”
Luke Boardman (Utah State University) “The Role of Isolation in the Evolution of Alexander the Great’s Self- Presentation”
Paige Matthews (Brigham Young University) “The Great Families of Post-Han China: Eremitism in the Shishuo Xinyu”
Hakelaho’imaiokalani Grace Ogden (Utah Tech University) “Synchronizing Scripts: The Adoption, Integration, and Influence of Hanja on Korea’s Written Language and Culture through the Unification of the Three Kingdoms”
Panel 1B: Across the Universe: Early Modern Religion and Society (HH 270)
Chair: Ravi Gupta, Utah State University
Indigo Sky Nelson (Utah Tech University) “Yeonsangun’s Reign of Terror: Investigating the Impact of His Mother’s Treatment and Demise”
Vibeka Just (Utah Valley University) “Female Ambition and Mana: The Role of Noblewomen in Precolonial Polynesia”
Mia Delli Gatti (Brigham Young University) “Deals with the Devil and Deviant Behavior: Religion in Early 16th Century Hispaniola”
Panel 1C: Biographical Histories (HH 226)
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/PAT-conf-USU
Chair: Brendan Lee, Utah State University
Tyler Clarke (Weber State University) “More Than Pioneers: Japanese Immigration into Morgan County, Utah, 1906-1941”
Sarah Mayers (Utah State University) “Gender on a Family Farm: Experiences of the Wyatt Family in the Early Twentieth Century”
Hannah Kelley (Brigham Young University) “Delia Magdalene: A Woman’s Search for Identity in the Twentieth Century”
Mikelle Andersen (Brigham Young University) “A Divided Country and A Divided Mind: The Mental Health of Civil War Soldiers, Rice C. Bull and Abner R. Small”
10:45 am | Break | Hunstman Hall 220
11:00 am | Session 2 | Hunstman Hall
Panel 2A: Dribbling Policy: USU Women’s Basketball and Title IX (HH 260)
Chair: Kelly Rovegno, Utah State University
Public History Roundtable:
Katie Jenkins (Utah State University)
Greta Jensen (Utah State University)
Jessica Wright (Utah State University)
Panel 2B: We Can Do It! Gender History in the Modern World (HH 226)
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/PAT-conf-USU
Chair: Susan R. Grayzel, Utah State University
Madison Harris (Utah State University) “’I Want You’ and Women Too: Women Who Chose to Serve in the US Military and the OSS during WWII”
Grace Chipman (Brigham Young University) “Pulling for Victory: LDS Girls’ Contributions”
Panel 2C: War and Its Discontents in the Twentieth Century (HH 270)
Chair: James Almeida, Weber State University
Abigail Beus (Brigham Young University) “The Looting of Spain’s Blue Division during WWII: A Vestige of Imperial Glory”
Beatriz Avila-Marquez (University of Nevada-Las Vegas) “’Mr. Wilson and General Huerta’: The Tampico Affair and Impact of Woodrow Wilson’s Administration on Victoriano Huerta’s Government”
Garrett Mast (Brigham Young University) “Failure for Avon, Failure for Labor: A Waterworks Project and the Shortcomings of Left-wing Groups in Pre-WWI Aberdeen”
Panel 2D: Innovation and Military Change in East Asian History (HH 220)
Chair: Hosok O, Utah State University
Charles Cook (Utah Tech University) “Analyzing the Impact of Advancements in Amrament and Weaponry on Military Strategies in the Imjin War”
Gregory DeWitt (Utah Tech University) “Navigating Destiny: The Unintentional Koryeo Maritime Golden Age During Yuan Dynasty Rule and the Failed Japanese Invasions of 1274 and 1281"
12:15 pm | Luncheon, Induction Ceremony, & Keynote Address | Eccles Conference Center
12:30 pm
Induction Ceremony & Recognition of Students of the Year (ECC 205)
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/PAT-conf-USU
12:40 pm | Keynote Address, Dr. Angela Diaz
1:30 pm | Session 3 | Hunstman Hall
Panel 3A: Trad Wife, Sad Life: Gender Roles in Antiquity (HH 260)
Chair: Marie Skinner, Utah State University
Tyler Perry (Utah State University) “Modern Misinterpretations of Lysistrata”
Daria VanSoolen (Utah State University) “The Tarkhan Dress”
Erik Shelley (Utah State University) “Patria Potestas in the Roman Republic“
Panel 3B: Communism and Culture in the Twentieth Century (HH 270)
Chair: Tammy M. Proctor, Utah State University
Sean Fitzgerald (Brigham Young University) “Helen Foster Snow: Lessons in Mythmaking”
Kimberly Callister (Brigham Young University) “The ’Amerikanskiy Muzey Director’”
Noah Jenrich (Westminster University) “Hands Across the Water: An Analysis of the Beatles and their Impact on the Counterculture and fall of the USSR”
Panel 3C: Destinies Manifest: Reinterpreting Western American History (HH 226)
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/PAT-conf-USU
Chair: Colleen O'Niell, Utah State University
Staci Lamb (Utah State University) “The Baker Massacre of 1870 and the Impact of the Colonizer’s Narrative: Western Academia, Patriarchy, and Sexual Violence as a Tool of Silence”
Elizabeth Hatch (Weber State University) “’For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People:’ Selling the Ideas of Yellowstone and Wilderness”
Dana Yvonne Anquoe (Utah Valley University) “Joshua Given: A Kiowa Interpreter’s Legacy”
2:45 pm | Break | Huntsman Hall 220
3:00 pm | Session 4 | Hunstman Hall
Panel 4A: Chivalry’s Not Dead, but Lots of People Are: Knights and Warfare in the Crusades Era (HH 260)
Chair: Mustafa Banister, Utah State University
Deven Salisbury (Utah State University) “Jesus Weaponized: The Christian God during the Crusades”
Tennessee Tarrant (Utah State University) “Redeeming the Reputation of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos”
David Skidmore (BYU-Idaho) “The Purpose of Pageantry“
Panel 4B: Beyond War Crimes and Punishment (HH 226)
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/PAT-conf-USU
Chair: Sarah Reed, Brigham Young University
Abigail Cohen (Weber State University) “Conspiracy and Controversy: Robert H. Jackson and his Influence on the Nuremberg Trial”
Lily McKay (Westminster University) “United States Eugenics Influences in Nazi Germany”
Panel 4C: “You say you want a Revolution?” (HH 270)
Chair: Julia Gossard, Utah State University
Ethan Petersen (Utah Valley University) “’The Usage of Terror: A British Reaction to the French Revolution”
Sophie Haslam (Westminster University) “Romanticism as a Revolution”
4:15 pm | Awards, Closing Remarks, & Reception | Eccles Conference Center
Awards will be given for Best Papers in the Undergraduate and Graduate categories. In addition, we will have awards for papers in chronological categories: pre-1500 and post-1500.